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DJ Rick

I can name that tune in negative three notes!

About Me

A fountain of useless trivia specializing in geography, obscure music, automotive history, and the Old West, I take in an average of 2.5 live music shows per week, school a dozen or more fools on the blacktop per week, and usually get to the top of at least one mountain peak on the weekend. I'm very proud of my parallel parking expertise. One time, I got a round of applause from a group of people who had assembled on the sidewalk to see if I could actually wedge my way into this tiny spot. Money even changed hands as two dudes placed bets on whether I was gonna make it.
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My tee-shirts are arranged by color ROYGBIV-style with the black shirts starting after the "V" then followed by a greyscale that descends all the way to the white shirts. And they are all tri-folded so as to avoid creases down the middle. But I do not have OCD, I swear it!
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I host a weekly radio show called "Art for Spastics"...
I play thee best in garage/scuzz-punk ineptitude, knuckledragging thug-rock of the lesser primates, high-falutin jackoffnoise, glitched-out electro booyar jamz, art-damaged skronkrawk, misappropriation of "Neo-No-Wave" & hella contrived subgenre names.... You just nod along & pretend to enjoy!
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Here's my "Art for Spastics" blog...
http://artforspastics.blogspot.com/
...which includes the links for listening or downloading the show, researching the bands or perhaps figuring out how to buy this stuff if the mood strikes you, and brief reviews of the material featured on the program.
Thanks for listening and/or reading...

My Interests

live music shows, hiking/peakbagging, calf/quadracep development, trashtalkin' blacktop basketball, burrito connoisseurism (trust me, I know real Mexican food!), thrift-shop cherry-picking, roadtrips, my friend Todd's health, writing long emails

I'd like to meet:

Show-goers; record geeks; streetballers; hikers; art-damaged scuzz-punk bandmates; Jerry Reynolds and Gary Gerould.

IF YOU WANNA CONTACT ME ABOUT BOOKING A SHOW:
DO NOT MESSAGE ME ON MYSPACE, PLEASE! I get too many messages. Please email me at...
fungardenshows (at) gmail (dot) com

Music:

Abe Vigoda, A Frames, Alan Milman Sect, Alarmist, Rashied Ali, GG Allin & the Jabbers, Amon Düül II, Anteenagers M.C., Antennas Erupt, Art Lessing & the Flower Vato, Baby 63, Bad Posture, Battleship, Beat Happening, Bench, the Better to See You With, Biting Tongues, Blank Dogs, Blood Feast, Blue (Philly), Blue Cheer, Blurt, Bomis Prendin, Boulder, Brainbombs, Burmese, Burning Witch, Business Lady, Cabaret Voltaire, Capitalist Casualties, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Caroliner, CeBe Barns Band, Channels 3 & 4, the Cherry Point, Cheveu, Child Molesters, Chino XL, Chrome, Todd Tamanend Clark, the Clean, Cock ESP, the Consumers, Kevin Corcoran, Corpse Fucks Corpse, Coughs, Country Teasers, Crash Normal, Crime, Crisis, Cro Magnon, Crucial Section, Curse of the Birthmark, Dadamah, Danava, Dark Day, David Copperfuck, Dead/Bird, Dead Moon, Dead Raven Choir, Death Sentence: Panda!, Deathside, Debris', Designer, Detention, Dissimilars, Doormouse, Doppelganger Squid, Drunks With Guns, DS-13, Eat Skull, Eat the People, Electric Eels, El Jesus de Magico, Emil Beaulieau, End Result, Esplendor Geometrico, Erase Errata, ExTxA, Ettrick, Euclid, Exclaim, Factums, the Fall, Fang, Fat Worm of Error, Faust, Faxed Head, Feedtime, the Feelers, Flying Luttenbachers, the Formless, 14 Iced Bears, Frustration, Fuck Off Records, Functional Blackouts, Fungus Brains, Fushitsusha, Gang Wizard, Gapeseed, Gaunt, Gauze, Genbaku Onanies, Get Hustle, Gift of Goats, Girl Talk, Glass Candy, Glass Family, Gob (Reno), God's Gift, Grauzone, H-100's, Hair Police, Hampton Grease Band, Harry Pussy, Head (Seattle), Hearts of Darknesses, Heimat Los, Heist, Heldon, Hellnation, Henry Fiat's Open Sore, High Rise, Hijo Kaidan, Home Blitz, Honeymoon Killers, the Hospitals, Noah Howard, Hubble Bubble, Human Host, Hustler White, ICK, Icky Boyfriends, Inca Ore, Indian Bingo, Indian Jewelry, Inflatable Boy Clams, the Intelligence, I Refuse It!, Jaws, Jay Reatard, Jellyroll Rockheads, JFK Jr. Royal Air Force, Jonny X & the Groadies, Josef K, Joy Division, Karate Party, Karp, the Kids, Kill-a-Watts, Kill Me Tomorrow, Kill the Hippies, K.I.T., Kites, Klondike & York, KTMK, Labradford, Lack of Interest, Lake of Dracula, Lama, the Lamps, Leaders, Le Chevalier de Rinchy, Le Club des Chats, Le Flange du Mal, Lil Pocketknife, Lightning Bolt, Lip Cream, Liquorball, Little Claw, Loop, Los Huevos, Los Llamarada, Lost Sounds, Lovely Little Girls, Lubricated Goat, Lync, Mainliner, Malibu Falcon, Mammal, Manbot, Man Is the Bastard, Mattress, Mayyors, the Meanies, Meercaz, Dan Melchior und das Menace, Mens Recovery Project, Mercury 4°F, Metal Urbain, Mikaela's Fiend, Mika Miko, the Monitors, Monoshock, Roy Montgomery, Mr. & Mrs. Tribute to Ugliness, Multiplex, Mummies of the Insane, N.213, Nar, Negative FX, the Neos, Nervous Eaters, Nervous Gender, New Flesh, Night Kings, Night Wounds, No Doctors, Nothing People, No Trend, Numbers, Oaxacan, Okan, Orange Wedge, Riz Ortolani, John Oswald, Outo, the Outsiders (Dutch), Parts & Labor, Pay Toilets, Percy Faith & his Orchestra, Linda Perhacs, Pink Reason, Pink Section, Pissed Jeans, the Pizzas, Plants, Point Line Plane, Portion Control, Popular Shapes, Princess Sweepstakes, Psychedelic Horseshit, QEK Junior, Radiopuhelimet, Raxola, Really Red, the Reatards, Renaldo & the Loaf, Residual Echoes, Ripcord, Robedoor, Rubber (O) Cement, Rupture, Pierre Schaeffer, Schnauzer, Screamers, Septic Death, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Severed Heads, Sex With Girls (Is Rad), Sexy Prison, Shadow Ring, Jim Shepard, Sightings, Silentist, Silver Daggers, Sirius B, Sir Lord Baltimore, Ski Instructors, Skullflower, Slapping Bikini, Sleetmute Nightmute, Smegma, Smersh, Snake Apartment, SxOxB, Sockeye, Solitairen Effekten, the Sores, So So Many White White Tigers, Spider, Stickmen With Rayguns, Chad Stockdale Quartet, Stretchheads, Suppression, Swimmers, Sword Heaven, Billy Syndrome, Talbot Tagora, Tampax, Tapeworm, Teengenerate, Terveet Kadet, the Testors, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Times New Viking, Totalitär, Towel, Toxic Attitude, Tralphaz, Troya, Tunnels, Tuxedomoon, TWIN, Tyrades, Tyvek, Uncle Jim's Superstars of Greenwich Meantime, Uncurbed, Unholy Swill, Unnatural Helpers, the USA Is a Monster, U.S. Girls, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Venom P. Stinger, Vholtz, Voivod, Volt, Warm Streams, Weirdo/Begeirdo, Ruth White, the Wipers, Wire, Woman's Worth, Wooden Shjips, ...Worms, the Worst, X (the one from Australia), XBXRX, the Yahmos, die Yellow Swans, Michael Yonkers, YUKhONIC, Yuma Nora, Zebra Attack, Zero Boys

Movies:

After Hours, American Heart, American Beauty, Better Off Dead, Brother From Another Planet, CB4, The Deer Hunter, The Delivery Boys, Fast Break, The Man Who Skied Down Everest, Office Space, Rad, Series 7, TV Carnage

Television:

Cheaters, Upright Citizens Brigade, Cheap Seats

Books:

City of Quartz, Secor's The High Sierra, Roughing It (especially the parts about Twain's time in Mono County), Range of Light, Places Rated Almanac, Boring Postcards, Fuzz Flaykes & Shakes, Slam magazine, Chunklet, Sincere Brutality

Heroes:

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My Blog

AFS v. 183 ~ Sexy Prison bring 2011 in 2008

You can download this week's show from links atop the latest blogpost...http://artforspastics.blogspot.com/2008/07/afs-v- 183-sexy-prison-bring-2011-in.htmlPlus, a check out a feature on the brand-new ...
Posted by DJ Rick on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:21:00 PST

AFS v. 182 ~ Hello, Tonsils....Its Me, Clifford!

For as long as I've been fanatically obsessive about music, perhaps no other band has been as special to me as Severed Heads. I've caught all kindsa hell from people about it, but I've always rated th...
Posted by DJ Rick on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:11:00 PST

AFS v. 181 ~ Is That How They French in Clevo?

Now that they've had an eight-page thread of unanimous "THIS RULES!" on teh TERMBOXZORS, surely someone will finally step forward to say that The Mayyors suck, right? It hasn't happened yet (and that ...
Posted by DJ Rick on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:34:00 PST

AFS v. 180 ~ Back from the Trail of Beers!

This week's AFS aired live while I was still on the road, driving home with the triumphant Mayyors following their quick tour of two Portland shows and a Seattle show. But I've still got two fascinati...
Posted by DJ Rick on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:15:00 PST

AFS v. 179 ~ Mayyors Hit the Trail of Beers

To DOWNLOAD this week's show, go to links atop the latest blogpost...http://artforspastics.blogspot.com/2008/06/afs-v- 179-mayyors-hit-trail-of-beers.htmlYou will also find a feature on the Mayyors' to...
Posted by DJ Rick on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:10:00 PST

AFS v. 178 ~ You Only Live Once!

You can DOWNLOAD this show from links atop the latest blogpost...http://artforspastics.blogspot.com/2008/05/afs-v- 178-you-only-live-once.htmlNow that I'm livin' in Sacto, it's important that I keep my...
Posted by DJ Rick on Tue, 27 May 2008 10:03:00 PST

AFS v. 177 ~ We Wrecked Your Car!

Keep both hands on the wheel this week. The 2nd half of this road gets has some bumpier stretches than we've seen in previous weeks. So much misanthropy and cynicism this week...You'd think I was in s...
Posted by DJ Rick on Tue, 20 May 2008 01:40:00 PST

AFS v. 176 ~ Kustom Moonboot Fitting

In the AFS news this week: This breezy, splendid new Dan Melchior album is thee superb all-purpose moodlifter of 2008 so far. Get it ASAP! Also, Eugene is back on the map for reals now. The band known...
Posted by DJ Rick on Tue, 13 May 2008 01:10:00 PST

AFS v. 175 ~ Now Im My Own Boss!

Thanks again to everyone who donated to the KDVS fundraiser. $60,000+ is enough for us to continue being one of the handful of really excellent radio station on the air and on the internet. Everyone w...
Posted by DJ Rick on Tue, 06 May 2008 01:28:00 PST

Our 1st Show @ New Sacto House: Naked on the Vague/Gowns/et al

ANNOUNCING the inaugural show at our new Sacto house....Friday, May 2 @ Edge Central 3866 Jeffrey Avenue in Sacto 7:00-10:00 only (I want this to run on-time!)Nevermind the suburban-sounding street-na...
Posted by DJ Rick on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:43:00 PST